Once within borders territories of power, wealth, and belonging since 1500

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Maier, Charles S. (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2016
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: A history of political space
  • 1. Spaces of empire, 1500-1650
  • Spatial imaginaries
  • Epochs of empire
  • Empires at sea
  • Crises of imperial governance
  • 2. Spaces of states, 1550-1700
  • Descartes and Vauban at war
  • The transformation of the fortress
  • Territory and sovereignty
  • The spaces of early modernity
  • 3. Contesting the countryside
  • Vauban looks inward
  • A century of cold and conflict
  • The Cadastral struggle
  • Physiocracy goes global
  • 4. Projects for an agrarian regime, 1770-1890
  • Emancipating the serf, settling the peasant
  • Reappropriating the land
  • Myths of the collective
  • Farewell to free land
  • 5. "An invisible force": railroads, continents, colonies
  • Railroad nationalism
  • Continentalism
  • Last call for territories
  • Postscript: territorial geometry after 1890
  • 6. From fate to function: the twentieth century and after
  • The geopolitical ambition
  • Spaces of ideology: World Wars and Cold War
  • New geographers, new geographies
  • Conclusion: still within borders?
  • Borders besieged
  • Territory transformed
  • Territory for whom?.